2010-02-23

Over two thousand mine workers will this afternoon at 15H00 gather at Western chrome mine in Mooinooi, between Brits and Rustenburg to present a memorandum of demands to management. The workers demand amongst other things: Decent accommodation and that the company should review its housing policy; that miners and smelters should negotiate around one negotiation table; training and development; an end to nepotism and discrimination as well as real transformation. “We are tired over a plethora of issues chief amongst them is the issue of housing. We cannot live in residences that are reminiscent to pig stables any more, we need change and that change must happen now” says Mandlenkosi Tyesi, the NUM‘s Branch Secretary at Western Chrome.

“We are marching to present a memorandum as a warning to say if our demands are not attended to, then we may have no option but to seriously consider strike action” says Tyesi.